Our Demands
Borders and racism are not “issues” sitting alongside the economy. They are ways the state tiers rights, disciplines labour, and manufactures disposable people. An organisation that compromises here will compromise everywhere. We demand that the organisation adopt and act on the following.
Demand 0: No two-tier movement
Full participation and leadership pathways regardless of nationality or immigration status.
Migrant and racial justice is a core political line, not an optional add-on.
Guaranteed resourcing (budget, staff time, platforms) for this section—solidarity must be material.
Demand 1: Voting rights for all residents
Extend the franchise to all long-term residents for local and national elections—no taxation without representation.
Make democratic rights independent of passport and Home Office status: if you live here, you have a say here.
End political exclusion that keeps whole communities governable but voiceless.
Demand 2: No “good migrant” hierarchy — equal treatment regardless of origin
We reject any immigration system that favours “first world” migrants while restricting, criminalising, or degrading migrants from the Global South.
No two-tier routes based on “skills”, income thresholds, nationality lists, or “low-risk” profiling that reproduces racial hierarchy under bureaucratic cover.
Equal rights and equal dignity for all migrants: immigration policy must not be a proxy for race, empire, or “desirability”.
Demand 3: End the hostile environment in principle and in practice
Abolish internal border controls: “right to rent”, “right to work” policing by employers/landlords, and immigration-status checks embedded in everyday life.
No deputising of public services as border enforcement; end data-sharing that enables immigration enforcement through healthcare, housing, education, or local authorities.
Make hostile-environment repeal a non-negotiable programme commitment.
Demand 4: No raids, no detention, no deportation as routine governance
Oppose raids and enforcement operations; build a member-and-community rapid response network to resist them.
End immigration detention and the use of prisons as migration infrastructure.
Halt removals that separate families, endanger lives, or punish people for exercising rights.
Demand 5: Defend the right to asylum—stop criminalising arrival
Repeal laws that criminalise asylum seekers for how they arrive and that block access to a fair hearing.
End inadmissibility-by-route and “deterrence through destitution” as asylum policy.
Safe routes and access to claim asylum on arrival: protection is a right, not a reward.
Demand 6: Scrap offshoring and “safe third country” expulsions
No removals schemes that export responsibility to other states.
No legislating-away of legal scrutiny by deeming countries “safe” regardless of evidence.
Commit to an asylum system based on protection and due process, not spectacle and punishment.
Demand 7: Equal social rights for all—no status-based exclusion
End NRPF-style exclusions and all policies that make people destitute because of immigration status.
Universal access to healthcare, housing support, education, and emergency assistance without fear of enforcement.
Make social provision unconditional: rights are not earned through “good behaviour” under a border regime.
Demand 8: Work without fear—equal rights and real enforcement
Equal employment rights regardless of immigration status: protection from wage theft, coercion, unsafe work, and employer threats.
Firewalls between labour enforcement and immigration enforcement: reporting exploitation must never risk deportation.
Target the employers and agencies who profit from precarity—not the workers.
Demand 9: Stop citizenship-stripping and the expansion of revocable belonging
Reverse the expansion of citizenship deprivation powers (including the post-2001 changes often associated with the “Hamza amendment”) and commit to strong safeguards against stripping citizenship.
No second-class citizenship: end regimes that make some people’s membership permanently conditional and more easily removable.
Restore due process, transparency, and high thresholds where citizenship is at stake.
Demand 10: Confront racist policing, surveillance, and the criminalisation pipeline
End discriminatory stop-and-search, gang databases, Prevent-style suspicion politics, and surveillance regimes that target racialised communities.
Oppose the fusion of policing and immigration enforcement: no joint operations, no intelligence sharing, no “immigration offender” framing.
Treat racist policing as a core class issue.
Demand 11: Housing without borders
Abolish landlord immigration checks and all forms of housing discrimination by status.
End the use of homelessness systems, temporary accommodation, and local authority gatekeeping as de facto border control.
A housing programme that recognises how racialised exclusion and border controls intensify overcrowding, insecurity, and exploitation.
Demand 12: Our organisation must be safe, democratic, and accountable
Clear rules against racism and xenophobia, with enforceable consequences—including for elected representatives.
Political education for organisers and candidates on race, empire, borders, and labour—mandatory, not optional.
Practical access: interpretation/translation where needed, accessible meeting times, childcare and travel support, and protections for members vulnerable to harassment or state targeting.
Demand 13: Internationalism, not border realism
Reject foreign policy that fuels displacement—war, arms exports, extraction—then punishes the displaced at the border.
Treat migrant justice as part of anti-imperial politics: no “humanitarian” rhetoric paired with coercive enforcement.
Build solidarity across borders and across the working class here—without demanding assimilation, silence, or gratitude.